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Did any one check out the spider caves in the valley, boulders fell to create a cave and native indians painted on the inside of the cave, the way in sucks, it gets really tight, but the exit is just a huge boulder missing...

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Originally Posted by Geno_guerrero

Did any one check out the spider caves in the valley, boulders fell to create a cave and native indians painted on the inside of the cave, the way in sucks, it gets really tight, but the exit is just a huge boulder missing...

if something is called spider caves, that is a definite sign for me to avoid it

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^ ha ya i know what you mean. Im not really scared of heights and will usually go and see whats going on at the edge of a cliff/mountainside but i wouldnt go near the edge when i did that hike!

the best hiking is really in tuolumne meadows

its absolutely beautiful!

the highcountry above Tuolemne Meadows is amazing, tons of small little secluded lakes to camp around, and you hardly see more than a few people

Mist Trail is absolutely awesome, just unfortunately it's an extremely popular day hike and sometimes you are surrounded by literally bus fulls of tourists and it detracts from the experience...beautiful though

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QFT! Tuolomne Meadows area is my happy place. One of the most beautiful places in California. The sweeping glacially-carved ridges really do it for me. It's so wide-open and empty.

Originally Posted by humanoid

the highcountry above Tuolemne Meadows is amazing, tons of small little secluded lakes to camp around, and you hardly see more than a few people

I did one of those High Sierra camps with my mom up there last summer around the Cathedral Lakes, on the John Muir Trail, really beautiful area with hardly any other hikers, I hope I can go back there again really soon...

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Originally Posted by pancakespancakes

I did one of those High Sierra camps with my mom up there last summer around the Cathedral Lakes, on the John Muir Trail, really beautiful area with hardly any other hikers, I hope I can go back there again really soon...

Cathedral Lakes are awesome, I've been there a few times...never tried the High Sierra camps...but they seem pretty appealing since you don't have to carry 50 pounds of gear on your back!!

did you stay at that Sunrise Camp? I've camped there, but just at the backpackers campsight...awesome place

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Whoa, missed this thread. I drove through Yosemite to see Catherine Wheel in SF once.

I want to get back into hiking now that my kids are school age and can actually go along for a while. Jacob is starting to get into fitness a lot too, so I hope that means he would want to go hiking too. I hiked down into the Grand Canyon a long time ago, would like to go back sometime soon. Also, we have the Superstition Mountain practically next door to us, so I need to check that out.

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Originally Posted by amyzzz

Also, we have the Superstition Mountain practically next door to us, so I need to check that out.

I went there for my cousin wedding, it's really cool around the mountain, didn't get a chance to climb it, but I did play there golf course, The Lost Dutchman mine I heard is cool, there's stories of an old man guarding the mine...

My cousin in laws family lives on Superstition Mountain Golf Course, nice house, when my cousin and cousin in law are done with Chiropractor School, they are gonna open up business in AZ, can't wait to visit and climb superstition mountain, and I won't drive vespas drunk again...

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That was from the top of a mountain we hiked in Big Sur while there for the Animal Collective show. Walked past Noah hiking the same trail as we came down. It was a beautiful hike, I got a lot of good pictures. If I get the time off, I may go back there soon. Most likely my next hike will be Iron Mountain again, some friends and I have been talking about going. You can see quite far over San Diego county from the top.